The 34th Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 11, 2022 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2021.
Nominees were announced in March 2022.
Special awards +Special awards recipientsCategoryWinnerJeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Aisha Sabatini SloanJim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Vi Khi Nao and Silas HouseJudith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Ching-In Chen and Morgan ThomasRandall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction Kalynn Bayron
Nominees and winners +34th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalistsCategoryAuthorTitleResultBisexual Fiction We Want What We Want WinnerBlue-Skinned GodsFinalistMilk FedMonster in the MiddleWe Play OurselvesBisexual NonfictionBorealis WinnerDark Tourist: EssaysFinalistGreedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too MuchThe Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly DiseaseThe Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and PiecesBisexual PoetryAurielle MarieGumbo Ya Ya WinnerImagine Us, The SwarmFinalistMaster SufferingThe Best PreyThe Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the VoidGay Fiction100 Boyfriends WinnerBrickmakersFinalistGordoMy Good SonRainbow MilkGay Memoir/BiographyPunch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir WinnerAntiman: A Hybrid MemoirFinalistNever Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism with JD Pluecker (trans.)Writing with Caca / Gay Poetry Punks: New & Selected Poems WinnerBesiege MeFinalistCreep LoveShoreditchTendernessGay RomanceExcellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts WinnerBest of the Wrong ReasonsFinalistDublin BayFloridian NightsThe Other ManLesbian FictionSkye Falling WinnerMatrixFinalistThe Five WoundsHow to Wrestle a GirlWith TeethLesbian Memoir/Biography The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had) WinnerThe 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop CultureFinalistThe Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and LiberationThe Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve AdamsWhy Labelle MattersLesbian Poetry Last Days WinnerAll the RageFinalistThe Language We Were Never Taught to SpeakThe Renunciations: PoemsWho's Your DaddyLesbian RomanceThe Headmistress WinnerChemistry LessonsFinalistGo AroundIn the Long RunRed Tide at Heron BayLGBTQ AnthologyMouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought Winner (ed.)Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Finalist, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue FajardoQ & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (eds.)Queer Nightlife , Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller (eds.)The Methuen Drama Book of Trans PlaysLGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade and Vanessa FordCalvin WinnerHazel Bly and the Deep Blue SeaFinalist with Charlene Chua (illus.)Love, VioletStitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt and The Fabulous Zed Watson!LGBTQ DramaMrs. Harrison WinnerLove Like LightFinaliststoräe michelemama [rose.]Pillow TalkThrive, or What You Will {an epic}LGBTQ EroticaBig Joe WinnerQueer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty StoriesFinalist and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.)Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology and Jade Sarson (eds.)Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics AnthologyThe Lodger, That SummerLGBTQ Graphic NovelStone Fruit Winner and Val Wise with Oscar O. Jupiter (lettering)Cheer Up! Love and PompomsFinalistOur Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance with Ann Xu (illus.)Shadow LifeThirsty MermaidsLGBTQ MysteryThe Savage Kind WinnerBath HausFinalistFinding the VeinLies With ManMurder Under Her SkinLGBTQ Nonfiction Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 WinnerGirlhoodFinalistDear SenthuranDeep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer FuturesNorthern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of WaterLGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/HorrorNo Gods, No Monsters WinnerA Desolation Called PeaceFinalistBreeder with Kit Schluter (trans.)PhototaxisThe Tensorate SeriesLGBTQ StudiesVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall WinnerHomo Psyche: On Queer Theory and ErotophobiaFinalistRacial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of DesireThe Shape of SexTranstopia in the Sinophone PacificLGBTQ Young AdultThe Heartbreak Bakery WinnerHani and Ishu's Guide to Fake DatingFinalistThe City BeautifulThe Passing PlaybookWhat We DevourTransgender FictionSummer Fun WinnerDetransition, BabyFinalistA Natural History of TransitionMargaret and the Mystery of the Missing BodyShe Who Became the SunTransgender NonfictionBelly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness WinnerBrown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx StudiesFinalistCare Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures and Blake Gutt (eds.)Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval HagiographyTrans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic EmbodimentsTransgender PoetryCrossbones on My Life WinnerSalamat sa IntersectionalityFinalistTransverseVillainyx/ex/exis
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